Senior Software Engineer (US) - Backend (Go)

Company: Consensus
Location: Lehi
Posted on: August 1, 2022

Job Description:

About UsDescriptionConsensus is changing the way sales functions. Consensus provides intelligent demo automation software that helps our customers scale presales. Using Consensus, sales engineering teams build a library of interactive content that sales can send out on demand. This reduces unqualified demos and lag time for prospects to near zero and shortens sales cycles by as much as 68%.We are an agile shop using some of the best technologies available to provide the best possible user experience to our customers. We need bright, driven, innovative engineers to join the team and help us extend the platform, build cool new features and ensure our system meets the scale requirements of our rapidly growing business.Consensus is a fast-growing SaaS company based in the United States. We help sales engineers reduce wasted time doing repetitive unqualified demos so they can do more of what they do best: solution consulting.Sales engineers everywhere struggle with increasing demand for demos. Consensus is the leader in demo automation software that makes it easy to create, send, and track interactive demos that the sales team sends out on-demand. Consensus automatically personalizes the experience and tracks engagement, bringing prospects to live demos better educated and ready to talk specifics. Customers have reduced unqualified demos to near zero, doubled their Preasles productivity without increasing headcount, reduced sales cycles by 68%, and increased close rates by 27%.About The RoleIf you are a top-notch software engineer that loves solving tough technical problems while working with passionate, driven people, then this position might be a good fit for you. This position will be responsible for helping Consensus meet aggressive scale and platform growth challenges. You will use some of the best technologies available and will have an opportunity to shape the architectural future of a fast-growing, industry-leading company.What You'll Do

• Apply your skills with Golang to build high-quality, well-tested, scalable and powerful back-end services, database interactions, and analytics.
• Work with product managers to flush out requirements and create balanced delivery iterations.
• Interact with front-end engineers to help design API contracts to support user workflows.
• Create unit tests and work with both manual and automated QA to ensure new features and services work as expected. Improve the existing codebase to have better and higher quality test coverage.
• Cooperate with architects and DevOps to improve overall system design.
• Contribute to our architectural roadmap, to ensure we have a scalable, performant, maintainable, and secure application.
• Mentor and coach less experienced engineers in best practices and established patterns.
• Debug production systems as needed.
• Improve the system through better alerting, monitoring, and logging.
• Avoiding and removing the accrual of technical debt in our systems.RequirementsWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • 4+ years of related experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Good communication skills, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to holding yourself and your team accountable.
  • An expert level understanding of Golang (strongly preferred) or other enterprise-level back-end language (e.g. Java, C#, C++).
  • A firm grasp of solid architectural principles for back-end applications.
  • Well versed in abstraction, encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance, closures and other commonly applied principles.
  • Mastery-level understanding of REST and API development. Strong skills in building well designed APIs.
  • Strong debugging skills and the ability to detect and make performance improvements.
  • A pragmatic approach to feature development, architectural improvement, and system evolution.
  • A good understanding of Git and pull request workflows, including continuous integration.
  • A solid understanding and practical experience applying the agile methodology to projects.
  • Strong skills in the terminal for unix or linux-based operating systems, including script writing and command-line tools.
  • Experience with eventing frameworks like Kafka is a plus.
  • Experience with docker, kubernetes or other container-based technologies.
  • Experience working with cloud technologies, such as AWS.
  • Quality-minded, with the ability to elevate others in areas like effective boundary condition testing and test-driven development.
  • Very strong skills with SQL. Experience with other types of databases (noSQL, graph, etc.) is also preferred.BenefitsAT CONSENSUS, YOU'LL GET
    • Generous employer contribution towards health insurance, with multiple plans to choose from (dental and vision coverage available as well)
    • FSA/HSA programs available to maximize your tax savings
    • Guaranteed stock options
    • 401k with match contribution
    • Every other Friday off
    • Unlimited PTO
    • 2 days off each year to volunteer at a charity of your choice
    • Birthdays off
    • Paid Parental Leave to prioritize your family
    • Flexible/Remote work environment
    • Company provided a "best-in-class" WFH setup
    • Professional Development program

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